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From: | Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:05:39 -0400 |
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John B
You mentioned taxonomies as part of the NIST Big Data: Definitions and Taxonomies paper. Often taxonomies are used in definitions
so I was interested to see what definitions of data and Big data were in the document. Actually the definitions seemed quite modest and perhaps homegrown. For example there was this for Data Curation
Data Curating provides cleansing, outlier removal, standardization for the ingestion and storage processes This type of thing got me to wondering whether there is a good source of prior work to build these definitions on. I didn't see citations of things from ISO for example. Not that these would necessarily be better but one might review prior work in the data sciences as at least a point of departure and comparison. Actually some of the best discussion to point to is on the Ontolog Forum where the topic of "What is Data? What is a Datum?"Or you can start with John Sowa's post http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2013-01/msg00078.html
I'm not sure that anyone picked up on this exchange and tried to form concise definitions from it, but that might be a nice thing to see in a definitional effort. Perhaps this is already part of some definitional effort,
and if it is I would welcome knowing about it. These types of definitions grounding some higher concepts in lower ones can tend to spin around and be reinvented without progressing such as definitions of data that start
simply with "data is information" For example In computing, data is information that has been translated into a form that is more convenient to move or process. Or Structure Data? In the broadest terms, Structured Data is information that has been organized in a certain way to be interpreted by someone or something." Discussed as part of Schema.org http://www.mm4solutions.com/blog/schema-org-how-structured-date-is-changing-the-shape-of-seo/#sthash.mOyFWS3F.dpufGary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.
NSF INTEROP Project
SOCoP Executive Secretary Knowledge Strategies Potomac, MD
240-426-0770 On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:44 PM, John Bottoms <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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